Human Intelligence Needed: Enquire at the Desk
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
I thought about satirizing this, but I don't have time this morning and this here cake doesn't need icing anyway:
Form CNN: Bush: Better human intelligence needed
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush said Tuesday that the United States needs better intelligence gathering to further gains in the so-called global war on terrorism.
Intelligence agencies need to improve in one particular area, he said.
"Human intelligence, the ability to get inside somebody's mind, the ability to read somebody's mail, the ability to listen to somebody's phone call -- that somebody being the enemy," Bush said in an interview with CNN senior White House correspondent John King.
Lack of human intelligence has been blamed for the belief that stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq before the war. Their presumed presence was the stated rationale for the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, but the U.S. government recently abandoned efforts to find them.
Bush noted that a group has been formed to determine what needs to be improved.
It really is too bad that his current hired help just doesn't have very much human intelligence. I hope to God that they're able to find some soon. Perhaps this group could also be tasked to look into the shortage of common sense among Bush administration officials.